Canva is a marketplace where users can show their creativity in designing stickers, videos, photos, graphics, and so on. This marketplace has more than 55 million users every month from over 179 countries. One unique program of this marketplace is the Canva contributor program.
Creators can benefit from making designs for Canva in different ways. They may get royalties as well as exposure to up to 85% of the 500 companies. Interested in joining this contributor program? First of all, get to know about the program before learning how to join.
Canva Contributor Account and Program
Canva is like other platforms of graphic designing, it encourages all its designers to contribute design assets. The program helps Canva make a huge library of design elements and images. You can join the program if you know how to make this creative content:
High-quality video clips with short durations.
Graphic illustrations that deliver a clean and artistic look.
Images with modern looks and trending styles.
High-quality vector illustrations.
High-quality photos for commercial purposes.
Now that you know what this program is about, get yourself ready to join the program.
Becoming A Canva Contributor
To start working as a contributor, Canva users should be 18 years old or older. Make sure that you are the only owner of the content you are submitting to Canva. The easiest way to make sure is by creating unique content before submitting it and earning money from Canva.
A wonderful benefit of the program is that Canva user gets the rights to the designs they submit. This includes when Canva accepts those designs and sells the licenses for personal or commercial use. This special program is for everyone who has an account. Access the program by following these:
Access the official website of Canva and then log in to your Canva account.
The screen is going to show the Canva Home section, click Contributor Hub on the left side.
There will be some sections in the Contributor Hub, learn how to use those sections.
Some sections on the Hub include uploading to submit your designs in various formats such as MOV, MP4, EPS, GIF, SVG, PNG, CSV, and JPG. There’s also My Items where you can see all of your designs that have been approved by Canva. There’s also an Inspiration section to find instructions.
Setting Your Canva Contributor Profile
As a Canva creator, you can create your own personal branding space. Use your Canva profile as your portfolio to attract many clients from the international market. This means the most important step in becoming a successful contributor is updating the profile page.
On the screen’s top-right corner, click Account Settings.
Then upload your brand logo, brand image, or profile photo by clicking the Upload Photo button.
On the left-side menu, click Public Profile and fill up your location, personal website, description, display name, and profile URL.
Copy your link to the portfolio by right-clicking View Portfolio and selecting Copy link address.
Now hit Save Changes located on the bottom of the screen.
When your Canva contributor profile is ready, start making some creative assets. Follow Canvas design guidelines in increasing the design content acceptance probability.
Tips to Make Creative Assets
Different tips are going to help you succeed as a contributor. After following all those steps above and you have become a Canva contributor, learn about these tips.
Visual quality
Your designs’ visual quality must be clean, simple, and realistic. If you are creating illustrations of objects, animals, or humans, avoid unnecessary textures, gradients, shadows, and layered patterns. Make sure that users will be able to recognize the illustrations in one view.
But if you create logo designs, use imaginary logos with some generic designs. Don’t include commercial brand logos and their alternate versions. Feel free to create illustrations and stickers with fictional characters but don’t use trademarked characters.
Ease of use
End-users love creating content by using templates. Make sure that your designs are user-friendly. Graphical labels, for example, must be flat and low-contrast with enough negative space. This way, users will be able to add their customized texts.
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Now that you have a contributor account on Canva, start making money by promoting your account to everyone. Use SMS Broadcaster to broadcast text messages containing a link to your Canva contributor account or to your portfolio. This is an efficient way to sell more.